Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years later a ribbon of road was slowly unwinding eastward from India. It was Stilwell's road back. His uniform was the same, except that now he wore a Chinese cap. He was always too close to the front to wear the stars of his rank. Once, as he passed a working party of U.S Negro engineer troops, one remarked: "Look at that poor old man. Some draft boards will do anything...
...exhibits, none attracted more attention than the entries in the political section. Illinois farmers, sweltering through hot, humid days, got a look at assorted bosses and water carriers, each a ribbon winner in his class...
...four brawling wards north of Kansas City's 31st Street, Pendergast lieutenants energetically rounded up 12,000 voters, who started Enos Axtell off with a whopping 10,000-vote lead. In one blue ribbon precinct 430 out of 529 registered voters obediently trooped to the polls, 395 of them for Candidate Axtell. It was a handicap Roger Slaughter could not beat, even after winning the nine other wards in the District. The final, unofficial returns: Axtell, 20,424; Slaughter...
...Whitney, boss of the Railroad Trainmen and the man whom the President had roasted to a turn, rose to his feet and cried: "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and you can't make a President out of a ribbon clerk." All around him the crowd-drummed up by the militant National Maritime Union-cheered...
...outer yards, tower men set the switches for the Advance to roll onto the express track. Soon after, the nine-car Exposition Flyer wormed its scheduled way onto the same westward ribbon. The pair of silver streamliners whooshed along the flat Illinois roadbed at 80 m.p.h., three minutes apart...